Scrappy Genealogist Updates

19 November 2011

How to Sideload Apps onto the Kindle Fire - Dropbox

Are you thinking of getting the new Kindle Fire? Are you wondering if you can run all of your apps on it? Follow along as I learn how to side load Android apps from my phone to the Kindle Fire, no rooting or jail-breaking required!

4. Click on Backup Directory and choose your SD card. My backup for the SD card is /mnt/sdcard/backups. See Sascha Segan's instructions for more technical details.

5. Go back to the main ASTRO screen and click on Application Backup.

6. Click on the app you want to download and choose backup.

I clicked on Dropbox

Step 2: Copy apps from Android phone SD card to PC

Step 3: Copy apps from PC to Kindle Fire

Step 4: Download Easy Installer to Kindle Fire, open and use to install apps. The nice thing about Easy Installer is it's easy! When you open the program, the apps available for install appear immediately. No need to search for where you might have put the app. Not that that ever happens to me.

If I can sideload an app, you can too. Next up: Nook

Let me know if you have any questions or comments.

2:10 PM Update: No Sideloading Google Apps - Do you know how many Google apps
there are? Why doesn't Google offer apps for either the Color Nook or
the Kindle Fire? I am betting it is because both use proprietary
software, but to me it seems like cutting off your nose to spite your
face. Does Google prefer me to buy a non proprietary device? What's in
it for them? Why don't I go to www.google.com to find out. Or, will they
filter the results to only show me what they want me to know. Do you
know?

Greg Knieriemen writes in Kindle Fire, An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos that Amazon is blocking Google. Really? So is Amazon blocking or Google not sharing? Could everyone just play nice please so that I can have my cake and eat it too?